Tuesday, February 19, 2013

I am starting an Easter egg stitching project. I am stitching this egg onto white fabric. The egg features a ribbon at the top, decorative lines and some flowers at the base. There are a lot of opportunities for color:

I am settling in on this color scheme - light and dark greens, pinks, blues and purples. I have a yellow for the flower centers and of course white for the egg :)

I used perle cotton for the egg outline. I am stitching the ribbon in the light purple cotton floss, this is such a pretty color!To fill the ribbon, I am using lines of split stitch. I used the back stitch in green to add a decorative line to the egg. I like the look that two shades of green give this:

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

I did the text "Amor" in back stitch, except for the heart shaped "o". For that I used the Bokhara Couching Stitch. Remember that stitch? I demonstrated how I learned that here.

I think it is a wonderful stitch to fill in small shapes:

Here is the text after the blue water soluble pen marks have been washed out:

Once I finished the text, I used my pinking shears to cut all around my fabric piece. Then I took apart a picture frame

You may remember this frame from when I framed my picture from the Flowers Embroidery Pattern. I like to use this frame with no glass, it is perfect for displaying embroidery and I can change the picture all the time:

I tied a double bow from the ribbon and secured it with embroidery floss. Then I used double backed tape to secure the bow to the fabric: